| What is LabKey's Python API? |
| How do I set credentials to access LabKey data from my local machine? |
| How do I install the API? |
| How do I use the API? |
| Where can I get more examples of the API's usage? |
It is an API which allows to query, insert and update data on a LabKey Server from Python, plus programmatically update wikis and post to message boards.
Please, check the FAQ Security for details about setting credentials.
Install the library in the host from which you need to access the remote LabKey data using the following command from the shell:
$ pip install labkey
More information in the GitHub's project labkey-api-python and in the Python Package Index PyPI labkey.
Example of accessing the content of the list "Iris" in schema "lists" of project "Public datasets / Iris dataset", using the method "select_rows()" in the Python console:
>>> from labkey.api_wrapper import APIWrapper
>>> server_context = APIWrapper('labkey-collab.scicore.unibas.ch', 'Public datasets/Iris dataset', '', use_ssl = True)
>>> result = server_context.query.select_rows('lists','Iris')
>>> print(result['rows'][0]['SepalLength'])
5.4
More information in the GitHub's project labkey-api-python.
In the LabKey GitHub repositories:
Toy example: test_api_filter.py
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